History from a science fiction fan's perspective
As the American political landscape becomes more muddied and confused one indisputable fact has been overlooked by the US media in this week’s brouhaha over Donald Trump’s bizarre Second Amendment speech: if a Democratic President appoints more left-leaning Supreme Court ….
Both the armchair and professional historian can only be frustrated by the picture of the Internet that Google displays in its search results. For a recent project I wanted to compile a list of Websites that share family histories. Google, ….
If you study Viking history you have been told that the Vikings were the first people to settle the Faroe Islands. Now scientists have found evidence of an earlier culture that predates the Vikings’ arrival by as much as 3-500 ….
You won’t find many historians pointing to Kazakhstan as an important region in human history but closer inspection of prehistoric and historical peoples who lived in the area reveals some interesting patterns. For a long time anthropologists believed Kazakhstan might ….
According to recent summations of MesoAmerican Calendar Theory there is no “great cycle” in the Mayan calendar. So all the hype leading up to December 21, 2012 essentially wasted a great deal of energy among the ignorant, the profane, and ….
Most people are vaguely familiar with the widespread belief that the Roma or Romani (often called Gypsies or Travelers) are descended from an ancient people who lived in what is now northwest India or eastern Pakistan. But the lack of ….
An August 2012 article on the Economist ponders the mysteries of why we have money today. It is a question easily answered by many theories, none of them really satisfying. The problem is that every theory put forth so far ….
In every society when times get tough people start holding back some of their resources, depriving their societies of the full contributions they can make. In a normal period of general economic stability this process has little direct impact on ….